February 19, 2010
HERSHEY returns home Saturday night to welcome the Lake Erie Monsters to town at 7:00 p.m. The game marks the only time the Monsters will play at
Giant Center this season.
Alexandre Giroux scored two goals, leaving him one short of 30 on the season, but Adirondack rallied from two goals down to defeat the BEARS 5-3 Friday night at the Glens Falls Civic Center. Francois Bouchard also scored for HERSHEY in the loss. Former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton defenseman Joey Mormina scored the game-winning goal for the Phantoms midway through the third period on the power play. Goaltender Braden Holtby suffered the setback, making 37 saves.
Defenseman Patrick McNeill is sidelined with an upper body injury after absorbing a hit from Adirondackâ™s Jonathan Kalinski Friday night at the Glens Falls Civic Center. McNeill left the game in the second period and did not return. He is listed as day-to-day.
Former BEARS and Washington Capitals winger Brian Willsie skates for Lake Erie, and is third on the team in scoring heading into Saturdayâ™s game at
Giant Center. Right wing Darren Haydar was recently named by âThe Hockey Newsâ as the Player of the Decade in the American Hockey League. Haydar played against the BEARS in the 2006 Calder Cup Finals. Goaltender Tyler Weiman leads Lake Erie in wins this season. The Monsters are fighting for a playoff spot in the AHLâ™s North Division, currently in fifth place, trailing the fourth place Abbotsford Heat. Lake Erie defeated Syracuse 6-4 Friday at the War Memorial at OnCenter.
There are 12 other games on the AHL docket on Saturday. The Binghamton Senators and the Syracuse Crunch meet for the first-ever outdoor game in American Hockey League history today at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse. Manitoba is in Toronto, Adirondack visits Albany to take on the River Rats, and Abbotsford is in Bridgeport to take on the Sound Tigers at the Arena at Harbor Yard. Peoria visits Grand Rapids on Saturday, while Worcester takes on Hartford at the XL Center in central Connecticut, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton is at Lowell, Providence skates at Manchester, Portland is in western New York to play Rochester at Blue Cross Arena, Springfield is down south in Norfolk to take aim at the Admirals, Houston is in Chicago to play the Wolves, and San Antonio visits Rockford in northern Illinois.
Saturdayâ™s game can be heard via the BEARS Radio Network (100.1 FM and www.Sportsjuice.com) beginning at 6:40 p.m. John Walton, Ed Coffey and Jim Jones have the call of the action. The game can also be heard Saturday via Sirius/XM Satellite Radio on XM 204 and Sirius 208 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the United States and Canada.
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